Tharaka-Nithi County Assembly speaker and clerk have been sued for contempt of court.

The court head on Thursday that the county assembly clerk had allegedly instructed his secretary not to receive a court order that had stopped the impeachment motion against Deputy Speaker Susan Ngugi.

Mr Jackson Murithi, a court process server, told the High Court in Chuka that he delivered the court order on February 12, 2019 at the county assembly offices in Chuka town.

He said that assembly clerk’s secretary told him that she had been instructed not to sign the delivery note.

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Mr Murithi told the court that after insisting that she signs the delivery note, the secretary gave him her boss’ cell phone number which he called but was not picked.